shoma [spacecoast]

[verminous]

child.

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[verminous]

University. No way am I getting into most of those.

[solesuccess]

It can't have been that bad, can it? Can't you do a make-up test or something? [ also you are covered in wounds??? ]

[verminous]

Nah, I'm stuck with 'em. Think I did okay on at least one, though.

[yeah he sure is!]

[solesuccess]

Enough to actually get into a school? [ hm. ] Where were you trying to go?

[verminous]

...well, I was hoping to manage to go somewhere close to home. Stay with my mom and sister, help them out while I'm studying.

[solesuccess]

[ a slow nod... ]

Makes sense. I'd want to stay with my family, too. [ ... ] Sounds like that might not pan out though?

[verminous]

Keeping my fingers crossed, but... yeah, maybe not. Just depends on... if...

[pausing. blinking. and then he groans, slumping over.]

Not the school thing again.

[solesuccess]

[ a sympathetic smile. ]

Are you back now?

[verminous]

Yeah. Sheesh... I should be better at this.

[solesuccess]

I feel like these things are kinda designed to screw with all of us, even if your job kind of involves...you know. The stuff it does. [ he squints a little. ]

A school, Gregor?

[verminous]

It was fake, but... we believed we were students there. About half the time, anyway. Then whenever I fell asleep, I was in a completely different life again.

[solesuccess]

[ what. ]

What. Like...did you remember the first life whenever you shifted around?

[verminous]

No. Just went back and forth between 'em. I never remembered one while I was in the other.

[solesuccess]

That's even more annoying. What were the other lives like then...?

[verminous]

The first one was the regular school life, then in the other one... I believed I was a soldier in a country's army.

[solesuccess]

[ he just. frowns because he knows a little about gregor's life and can people stop fighting for the love of god. ]

...did you have to go to war then?